Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1887-05-13

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gin their days business. Four natty-
looking men occupied the cross seats OPP
posite each other in the middle OF the
car. They were evidently well acquainted
and old-time social as we'll as business
friends. The talk was stocks, of course
how Laekawanna went down and y.
I. up and down, and the discussion was
getting warm when the oldest member OF /
the party pulled out handkerchief from
his hip.pocket and in the action dropped |
something on the foor All four stopped |
talking until the lost object was finally |
tished out from under seat. The finder |
graVely examined it, held it up for the |
inspection OF the others and asked, |
What the deuce is it?'
A potato" replied the owner, look |
ing little sheepish and reaching out
for it.
What are you carrying it around in |
your pocket for? Do you expect a fam
inc? Have you got q steak also in your
coat poeket?''
rheumatism"
For rheumatism ?"
" Yes; don't you know that if you
carry potato in your pocket it will cure |
rheumatism? It hasn't cured me yet"
he added thoughtfully, earessing his
knee with gentle touch, but | live in |
hope. So give me my potato.
He got his mascot and the other three |
gentlemen laughed at the superstition OF
their friend, who went on to tell how he
had suffered for two years with twlnges
of rheumatism and how nothing seemed
to do him any good. The one who had
found the potato said that it served him
| right to suffer so. Any man who did
not know enough to take the proper
medicine ought to have the rheumatism,
| and have it bad, too. The potato carrier
protested that he had tried all kinds Of
remedies and employed the best physl-
clans in New York city, but without effect.
'But you haven't tried the right.
thing" continued his friend. My wife
was troubled the same way for years,
| and in four months was completely cured.
will bet you dinner for the four OF US
ct Delmonico's that can tell you secret
that will make you well before the sum-
mer hotels open again. OF course, you
won't believe / shall succeed, so am
sure to win the bet" The average
broker takes to wager as naturally as
duckling to the water, and OF course the
J bargain was agreed to. The young man
fshed aboutin his wallet and at last from
some secret hiding-plaee drew out a card
inscribed: =" Pardee Medicine Company,
, Rochester, N. Y" You write to the
company he said, passing over the
card 81 and get half dozen bottles Of
) DR.. Pardee's Rheumatic Remedy, and
if you are not satisfied ] shall be glad to
furnish the dinner. But there is not the
slightest proba bility Of my being the vic
tim. / am sure to win and you are sure
b to get cured. For four years my wife
/. was almost constant sufferer. Except
in the brightest weather she was always
+ complaining. We tried everything, but
| somehow the disease seemed to hang on.
Then an old doctor, retired from practice,
e who spends his time reading, told me
a that he had heard of a discovery of new
way Of treating rheumatism. An old
r English army physician, DR.. Pardee, had
rheumatism in perfectly new way-as
o a disease of the blood. The thing struck
+ me as at least possible, and with some
little trouble / got DR.. Pardee's address
n and sent for some of the medicine. The
+ result you see in this wager. Why, after
the very first bottle my wife was differ.
e ent woman. That was only last year
$ and ever since have gone about prais
ing DR.. Pardee's Rheumatic Remedy iust
u as if I were a paid agent. Wonder
e whether l couldn't collect from the
Pardee company for the good do? Bu
q here is my station" as the conductor
r called out Hanover square, and the foul
friends filed out together.
OF course don't know yet who wo1
N the wager; but mean to find out as soor
v and the dinner. But this illustrates al
is well as anything have seen in lonl
time the fondness for betting which pos
&c esses the average Wall-street man. Il
E. no other place in all this green eartf
would two men dare to make sucl
Il a serious thing asrheumatism the subjec
II OF wager.
fell in with an old friend, doctor
y shortly after this and was telling hin
lg about it, when he said: " Do you know
that discovery you heard mentioned is
10 singular thing. OF course, as a regula
id practitioner I ought not to say anything
about it, but | have looked into the mat
u ter some and am convinced that DR.
III Pardee has struck upon something tha
medical men have been searching afte
)! for years Ever since the days whel
N Socrates taught in Athens and Anton,
. made love to Cleopatra, man has bee
cursed with this disease. Down through
,g the ages, century after century ha
! slipped away and still this scourge ha
h men, Liniments, lotions, blisters an
= all kinds of local applications have ha
. their day and passed away. 1t has re
I'd mained for the genius Of the nineteent
= century to discover the true cause OF tn
disease. AS the blood is the life, SO an
is interruption to the healthful course {
-, the blood finds expression in this form {
. pain. Now, DR.. Pardee has locate'
IN the cause of the trouble and seems t
a have marked out remedy. 1t is whs
y, men hoped for when the Pyramids wer
!. building and it is what men are hopin
~ for now. II he has, at last, solved th
y problem the discovery will take its plac
y, In history by the side of the discovery
I'd ehloroform and the grand inventions {
the age.n
sr- It seems odd to the laymen to connet
10 such apparently different diseases 9
neuralgia and rheumatism, yet they bot
NJ come from the blood, says this phys
he clan, and are cured by somewhat slmlls
remedies. The medicines of the Parde
IS, Company, in their action upon th
system, are said to give to the patient
feeling of freshness and yigor, to sen
IN the rich blood pulsing through the yeir
he in fashion that makes women feel hk
heroines and men like conqueror
at Somehow, and in some way that
of don't profess to understand, it takes hol
of the kidneys and liver, stirs these o
ry gans up like farmer rousing laz
IRE tramp, and makes such things as sic
oh headaches and those gloomy, depresse
&c feelings that some people are often po
as sessed of, impossible. don't know wh
la the medicine does all this, but | hay
Of half a dozen wildly enthusiastic friene
who say it has helped them in tn
way, and that suffices for me. A
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